The great transition : political and social change in the Republic of China
Author: Hung-Mao Tien
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789576381577
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China's Great Economic Transformation
Author: Loren Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-14
Total Pages: 887
ISBN-13: 1139470949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt.
China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives
Author: Guoguang Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1317501209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs China moved from a planned to a market economy many people expected that China’s political system would similarly move from authoritarianism to democracy. It is now clear, however, that political liberalisation does not necessarily follow economic liberalisation. This book explores this apparent contradiction, presenting many new perspectives and new thinking on the subject. It considers the path of transition in China historically, makes comparisons with other countries and examines how political culture and the political outlook in China are developing at present. A key feature of the book is the fact that most of the contributors are China-born, Western-trained scholars, who bring deep knowledge and well informed views to the study.
Conceptual Structure and Social Change
Author: Sara Schatz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-09-30
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 031307724X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociopolitical changes are often associated with ideological shifts at the individual and mass level. The study of how sociopolitical and ideological change interrelate has been the subject of debate for decades. Here, however, the authors develop and defend a new theory that treats ideologies as complex cognitive systems that are internally articulated around prioritized principles and values. Focusing on the transition to democracy in Latin America, the book examines the changes in mass beliefs that accompany democratization in an effort to offer a more sophisticated theory of the relationship between belief, ideology, and action in social change. Ultimately, the authors argue for a cognitive-based model that can account for how social actors come to define democracy in current contexts. Taking democratization as a case study, ^IConceptual Structure and Social Change^R focuses on third-wave transitions to democracy of the 1990s because they are evidence of very complex ideological changes and alignments. Using comparative survey data as a tool to track ideological shifts, several ideological uniformities are identified, such as the rise of a unified opposition, the paradoxical support of the masses to the authoritarian party in power, and the ideological shifts and strategies used by ruling and opposition elites to gain mass support. Viewing these changes as the mechanics of ideological systems in flux paves the way for a general theory of ideological change.
The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
Author: Susan L. Shirk
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-07-15
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0520077075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries.
Transitions to Good Governance
Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1786439158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere façade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In this unique book, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Michael Johnston lead a team of eminent researchers on an illuminating path towards deconstructing the few virtuous circles in contemporary governance. The book combines a solid theoretical framework with quantitative evidence and case studies from around the world. While extracting lessons to be learned from the success cases covered, Transitions to Good Governance avoids being prescriptive and successfully contributes to the understanding of virtuous circles in contemporary good governance.
Two Societies in Opposition: The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China After Forty Years
Author: Ramon Hawley Myers
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780817990930
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Author: Alan Wachman
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781563243981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWachman, an English teacher in Taipei from 1980 until about 1990, draws on his own perceptions and on interviews with government and business leaders conducted in the early 1990s to explore the "national identity" of a country that was created out of a refugee camp. He also discusses changes in society and government, prospects for democracy, and the impending reintegration with China. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Taiwan: A New History
Author: Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 1040295142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores Taiwan's development from its formal beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Ming-loyalist regime, to a Ch'ing prefecture and province, to its half-century as a Japanese possession, and to fifty years as the home of the Kuomintang-controlled Republic of China.
Taiwan
Author: John F Copper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0429974221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this newly revised and updated edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province?, John F. Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history, society and culture, economy, political system, and foreign and security policies in the context of Taiwan's uncertain political status as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Copper argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New to the sixth edition is enhanced coverage of the issues of immigration; the impact of having the world's lowest birthrate; China's economic and military rise and America's decline; Taiwan's relations with China, the United States, and Japan; and the KMT's (Nationalist Party) return to power. The new edition will also examine the implications of the 2012 presidential election. A selected bibliography guides students in further research.
